*Ø* Blogmanac | "Ghost fleet" row heads to court

BBC News, 5 November

"Environmental campaigners are taking legal action over a fleet of rusting US navy vessels heading to the UK for wrecking.

"Friends of the Earth will ask the High Court in London to quash a modification to a waste management licence allowing the work to go ahead.

"Three Hartlepool residents are also applying to the court on Wednesday, for an immediate injunction to stop the ships arriving ...

"On Tuesday there was confusion about whether the so-called 'ghost fleet' -- contaminated with chemicals including asbestos and heavy diesel -- would be allowed into the UK."

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